. Good taste in home furnishing. of floor treatment, which is to keepthe floor the base of the room, decoratively HOME FURNISHING 47 speaking. Deep (well into the center fromthe edge) complicated borders may be safelyused on the carpet of any large room, par-ticularly in rooms magnificently furnished,but we should avoid borders and pattern car-pets or rugs (unless in small all-over pat-terns) in small rooms, or even in those ofmoderate size, because they tend to makethe room look smaller and are seldom restfulto the eye. The room will always seemcrowded when pattern carpets or rugs withborders
. Good taste in home furnishing. of floor treatment, which is to keepthe floor the base of the room, decoratively HOME FURNISHING 47 speaking. Deep (well into the center fromthe edge) complicated borders may be safelyused on the carpet of any large room, par-ticularly in rooms magnificently furnished,but we should avoid borders and pattern car-pets or rugs (unless in small all-over pat-terns) in small rooms, or even in those ofmoderate size, because they tend to makethe room look smaller and are seldom restfulto the eye. The room will always seemcrowded when pattern carpets or rugs withborders are used, for even when the wallsare plain the eye finds little chance to rest,continually returning, as it will, to the intri-cate and unusual designs covering the go back over our deductions, large de-signs and borders lessen the effect of size,while plain floors or plain carpet, particu-larly in shades of the luminous colors, tendto increase the apparent size of the , intricate, or colorful designs tend to. o-
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